Emergency teams of Indonesia They continue this Friday with the search for 29 missing people After the sinking on Wednesday night of a Ferri destined for the island of Balian accident that has so far charged six lives.
Another 30 people have been rescued alive so far, without the identities of the victims have been revealed.
Troops of the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) The waters of the Bali Strait, where the ferry caught Wednesday night with 53 passengers and 12 crew on board, according to the departure record.
The search was temporarily suspended Thursday night and resumed around 8:00 on Friday.
The rescue body indicated that during the Friday Waves are expected up to 4 meters high which negatively affects the operation, for which planes, helicopters and drones with thermal chamber have also been deployed.
Due to the strong waves, rescuers have had to leave the pneumatic and smaller boats on the ground and wear larger ships. Meanwhile, on the ground, the teams comb the coasts and beaches.
At the moment the causes of the boat accident are unknown, which left about 20 minutes before the shipwreck from the Puerto de Ketapang in the east of the island of Java, directed to the city of Gilimanukon the west of the island of Bali, a journey of more than three kilometers.
This trip takes about an hour and is one of the busiest in the country, since it is often used by people traveling between the islands by car, transported in the Ferri.
Maritime accidents are common in Indonesia due to precarious infrastructure, passenger and merchandise overload, lax compliance with safety standards and weather inclement.
The ship is one of the main means of transport in the Indonesian archipelago, formed by More than 17,000 islands and with a population of more than 270 million inhabitants.
In 2018, more than 150 people drowned when a ferry sank into one of the deepest lakes in the world, on the island of Sumatra, in one of the worst accidents of this type of the recent history of the country.